If you’ve been working on your biceps, triceps, glutes, and core, try your hand — well, arm — against others in the city at these furious but fun face offs held at places like Val’s Lesbian Bar and Philadelphia Brewing Company. Read More »
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You’ve probably played darts before, but you’ve probably never played them like this. The bar, which opened in May, features a newfangled technology called Social Darts. Yes, there’s automated scoring (there’s nothing worse than trying to keep score after a few IPAs), but there are also interactive dart experiences that put a new spin on a very, very old game. Read More »
1417 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA Website
Any bar that has weekly bingo games where ties are determined by a beer-chugging contest is a bar we wanna be at. Then there are the live bands and comedy and trivia nights that are more fun than most. Read More »
436 East Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Website
Because why play shuffleboard on a regular old straight shuffleboard table when you can play it on the one-of-a-kind, custom-made L-shaped shuffleboard table at a weird Kensington bar? Read More »
1624 North Front Street, Philadelphia, PA Website
Three words: Metallica pinball machine. (Plus: three Skee-Ball lanes, a rotating lineup of food-truck menus, more than 300 different varieties of canned beer – and none of the awful Shore traffic.) Read More »
1231 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA | 215-278-2429 | Website
Philly will get its first-ever board-game cafe when the delayed Thirsty Dice opens in Fairmount, hopefully sometime this fall. For now, the Thirsty Dice crew hosts monthly pop-ups at Fishtown’s Evil Genius brewery. (The next one’s on August 8th.) They bring the games, and they’ll sit with you and your friends to explain the rules ... and to referee when needed. Because when you’re drinking, who really wants to pull out the instructions? Read More »
Drinking in a bowling alley is fun, but bowling in a bar is better—especially when the cocktails are this top-shelf. Lane reservations required. Read More »
1525 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA | 215-330-2800 | Website